Tony and Susan by Austin Wright

Author:Austin Wright [Wright, Austin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780446601054
Publisher: Warner
Published: 1993-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The latest call came to his office. Louise Germane was there, she had just come in, he wondered what she wanted. He knew the voice: ‘Andes here, can you pay us another visit?’ He never did find out what Louise had wanted.

This was June, and Tony Hastings was free to travel, his third trip back. He drove his car, taking all day. The next day he sat with Bobby Andes in the top row of bleachers on the first base side, sandlot baseball on Sunday afternoon. The home team’s white uniforms had CHEVROLET on their shirts, the visitors in gray wore the name of Poleville, a town fifteen miles up the valley. The outfield stretched to a row of houses beyond a wire fence. Above them was a bluff with trees, and the valley spread in a broad plain on both sides. Cars on the highway watched on the third base side, and when someone got a hit the horns blew.

Wearing a hat and dark glasses, Bobby Andes dropped cigarettes through the boards to the dead grass while the sun glared on his haggard face. The wind was blowing. A dark rain cloud with black undersides lurked over the two round hills across the valley. The sun shone around the black undersides.

They were watching home player number 19, who was sitting on the bench below them, not playing. Tony could see only the back of his uniform from time to time between the heads of fans in the first row. Number 19 was jiggling, fidgety. He was yelling out to the field. Once he turned and grinned up into the bleachers. Not close enough to recognize, his tanned face in the sun with tiny white fisheyes. His name was Ray Marcus, and someone had named him a frequent companion of Lou Bates and Steve Adams. The lieutenant was sure he was Tony’s Ray because of the description. The possibility gave Tony chills in the sun.

With no one sitting near, Bobby Andes told Tony about it while the game dragged on. How he got the tip from the guys at Herman’s, after questioning Lou and getting nowhere. Herman’s, a bar in Topping, thirty miles up the valley from Grant Center. This Lou is a dumb ox, with one strategy: keep your mouth shut. Excellent detective work revealed that Lou came from California with Steve Adams, but nothing would make him tell who the other guy was in the Bear Valley holdup. As for your case, it couldn’t have been him because he was in California.

Bobby Andes told about Lou’s wife in California who hadn’t seen him in a year and a half with good riddance. That was fine detective work too, finding her, though it provided no useful information. Meanwhile Lou was living in Topping with a Patricia Cutler, who was almost as dumb and stubborn as Lou although not quite. Her slightly higher intelligence led her into revealing things Lou’s rocky stupidity kept hid, like the helpful admission they were not in California last year.

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